Community Shield - Arsenal (N) | Sun 6th Aug - 16:00

[Mike1984]

What point? Maybe some S/C holders bought them later maybe they didn’t. Maybe many went to Wembley a few weeks ago and Istanbul and don’t feel a need or can’t afford to go for a friendly, some will quite legitimately not be going as a protest they are quite entitled to do that .
Gives a chance for many cityzen matchday fans to go . So what ?

Point is many St don't care about the CS if a boycott or not its the most irrelevant game we play in the whole season I'm a ST holder been all over for years seen all 3 trophys this season yet never been a CS and many feel the same if you go have fun if you don't who cares its the only game I'm not arsed if I don't even see it on TV its a warm up for the week after when the real games start

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

If I have interpreted it right looks like we have sold about thirty thousand in three days. Looks likely to be sold out.

if that's accurate then that is a brilliant turn out , hope they have stocked up on the half and half scarves because none of them went to York away:)

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

We call journalists out for not doing enough research ,you clearly fall into that category.
A visit to the City ticket site,would tell you otherwise.

Why would i visit the ticket site in July ? , ticketmaster doing a fine job , travel , ticket ,hotel , half and half scarf and an all you can eat breakfast buffet thrown in

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

if that's accurate then that is a brilliant turn out , hope they have stocked up on the half and half scarves because none of them went to York away:)

Neither did I, however I did go to 0-6 at Derby and a multitude of other fucking humiliations, happy days :-)

 

[jrb]

From a club development point of view the CL is like hitting the turbo button. You can see why it was our owner’s main objective. I think there will be some Blue Mooners that maybe didn’t realise quite the impact. I’m surprised myself if the CS ticket rumours are true but I can believe it.

I can remember last pre-season in USA where the City fans outnumbered Bayern and I thought then the tide had turned.

No turning back now.

Once “115“ and “no fans” are put to bed they’ve got nothing left other than looking a bit sad and silly.

You're right about finally winning the CL, Cobwebcat.

But doing the (United, arf!) proper treble boosted City into football orbit, history and world fame. Achieving the treble has taken City to a world club football level our owners never dreamed would happen. :-) So has signing Haaland.

 

[mcfcpf47]

Point is many St don't care about the CS if a boycott or not its the most irrelevant game we play in the whole season I'm a ST holder been all over for years seen all 3 trophys this season yet never been a CS and many feel the same if you go have fun if you don't who cares its the only game I'm not arsed if I don't even see it on TV its a warm up for the week after when the real games start

You aren’t missing anything from the CS, save your money

 

[Tbilisi]

if that's accurate then that is a brilliant turn out , hope they have stocked up on the half and half scarves because none of them went to York away:)

Im going and I did.

 

[Tbilisi]

Point is many St don't care about the CS if a boycott or not its the most irrelevant game we play in the whole season I'm a ST holder been all over for years seen all 3 trophys this season yet never been a CS and many feel the same if you go have fun if you don't who cares its the only game I'm not arsed if I don't even see it on TV its a warm up for the week after when the real games start

We qualified as Champions in a Treble winning season.

Sorry but I take it seriously, want us to hold all 7!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Club Probably sold loads to agencies. 2000 plus online, mostly in our section from £36 so be plenty of day trippers but who cares? The more people going to watch us the better for me.

I won’t be going as on holiday but I may have been tempted for this one to be honest after what we did last season.

 

[M18CTID]

It doesn't matter what the demographic is,they are City fans,however you try and dress it up.
You've made your stand against the match and fair play to you,but stop.making remarks about others who choose to go.
It's quite clear you hoped for total support and it's clear it's not going to happen.

Having known @jrb for years, I know he wasn’t intending to offend with that post and I see he’s clarified his position.

Personally, as part of 1894 and someone who supported the boycott 100% I/we see this as at least a partial win insofar as the kick-off time was brought forward 90 minutes. At first I was actually sceptical that we’d even get any concessions and I was surprised that the FA/ITV caved in at all, let alone as quickly as they did. Much of that was down to the amount of publicity the boycott generated.

I don’t see the incredible turnout as a defeat for the boycott. And it is an incredible turnout because we’ve never sold as many tickets previously for a CS match at Wembley. This despite thousands of long-standing fans who have voted with their feet and aren’t going. I’ve not got an issue with any fans who are going to this game. It’s not for us to tell people what to do but we do feel that a half or quarter full end would’ve sent an even more powerful message to the powers-that-be but we have to realise that the number of tickets sold is indicative of where we are as a club. We’re a global club now and interest is through the roof now that we’ve won the treble and finally won the CL.

I’m also not convinced that our end will have that many new or neutral fans in it. Thousands and thousands of members attended the FA Cup semi-final but didn’t have any chance of buying tickets for the final as many ST holders who didn’t go to the semi bought tickets for the final. Example: There were 5 of us in my mate’s car travelling to the FA Cup final yet only one of those - me - went to the semi. Those Cityzens who missed out on the FA Cup Final also would’ve missed out on Istanbul so this is their opportunity to see our treble winners in their first game back on English soil. I can wait as I’ll be lucky enough to be at Turf Moor 5 days later but that option is only open to a couple of thousand fans.

We also have to realise that full-scale boycotts just don’t happen in English football as we’re nowhere near as well organised as German fanbases. I think the closest thing we’ve ever seen to a full-scale boycott on these shores was at Blackpool when thousands of fans refused to turn up for home games every other week for months on end in protest against the Oyston family. Blackpool fans had the luxury that they’re a predominantly localised fanbase though so it was easy to get word round all their match-goers and buy into it. That said, I admired their resolve in carrying it on as long as they did and it ultimately ended in victory for them. But something on that scale is never going to happen at City because we’re too big a club with too big a fanbase but I still feel more people bought into the boycott than I expected so we have to look at the positives. And one of those is that while I’m sure the FA, PL, and TV companies will continue to take the piss out of match-going fans, I think they’ll at least think twice about trying to force through a kick-off time of 5.30pm for the CS at Wembley in future when a northern club is involved.

And on a funny note, I heard on the grapevine that Arsenal’s Ashburton Army have knocked up a couple of banners mocking our support as they expected hardly any City fans to go. They’re going to look a right bunch of dickheads if they end up displaying those banners now!